His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
HERMANN HESSEPassion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
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My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
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To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.
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He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
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Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.
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Your soul is the whole world.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
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